The Lost Hero By Rick Riordan

“The Falling Man,” taken by Richard Drew on September 11, 2001, remains one of the most controversial, yet underappreciated images of the 21st Century. The picture captures one of the final moments of a victim from the World Trade Center, who chose to commit suicide rather than perish in the burning fires on the top floor. As the man plunges to his doom, he is positioned upside-down with legs flailing in the air. In the background lies the Twin Towers, positioned precisely to split right in the middle of both the image and the man himself. Understandably, this scene drew much backlash by the public, as it revealed the private moments of a man on the worst day in modern American history. At the same time, it also caused others to reflect soberly

I am reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan and I am on page 553. This book is about a boy named Jason who is a roman demigod. Just like the book the Lighting Thief, Percy Jackson is a main character in the book. Jason is just now figuring out that he is a demigod and he had to go across the world to save Hera. Hera is married to Zeus and is trapped and Jason and his friends have to save her before the winter solstice. In this paper, I will be Predicting and Evaluating.

The Book Thief (2013), directed by Brian Percival, is about a young old girl living in Nazi Germany (between 1939 and 1943) in the fictional town of Molching, Germany. Death narrates the story of the main protagonist, Liesel Meminger, beginning when she is nine years old and suffering from the death of her brother and separation from her mother. Liesel then goes to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann (played by Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson). When Liesel arrives, she is illiterate and is made fun of in school by the other children. Hans, a painter and accordion player, teaches her how to read, using the book Liesel took from her brother's burial: The Grave Digger's Handbook. Over the course of the movie, Liesel develops a love for reading and decides to steal books because of the economical hardships associated with World War II. Liesel's foster parents also decide to help a young Jewish man named Max, whose father fought with Hans as in World War One as German soldiers. The Book Thief illustrates a different perspective in regards to the Nazi Regimen and its effects on the German people, specifically children.

Tim O’Brien, the author of “Heroes”, discussed and elaborated his emotions and reactions to receiving his draft notice as a young man. He looks to Elroy Birdall as his hero, not for his advice, but his silence. He portrays his message on heroism by explaining that heroes don’t always give advice; however, they can sometimes be heroes just by listening. Tim O’Brien appreciates and admires the “mute watchfulness” of Elroy (O’Brien 278). He composes this argument through rhetorical elements and syntax.

As a growing topic of discussion, privacy in our society has stirred quite some concern. With the increase of technology and social networking our standards for privacy have been altered and the boundary between privacy and government has been blurred. In the article, Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets, Peter Singer addresses the different aspects of privacy that are being affected through the use of technology. The role of privacy in a democratic society is a tricky endeavor, however, each individual has a right to privacy. In our society, surveillance undermines privacy and without privacy there can be no democracy.

The names Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson, Fannie Lou Hamer and Thurgood Marshall are all civil rights heroes, not to be forgotten. However, Jonathan Kozol reveals that the schools he has had experience with that are named after these civil rights champions are actually dishonoring the dead. Professor Gary Orfield indicates that schools that are comprised mostly of minority students, less than 1% white, are essentially “apartheid schools.” There is a reciprocal action, “To give up on integration….requires us to consciously and deliberately accept segregation”(Orfield and Eaton, 20). It is noted that some of the reasons New York has this problem is due to government enforced school boundaries, housing segregation and non-enforced fair housing laws. Thus, the schools are named after the heroes in a show of respect and honor, yet their segregation is a dishonor to the namesakes. The racial isolation of the students leaves them feeling hidden, unwanted and inferior. This is a dishonor to those students and the people who fought so persistently for equal opportunities.

In A Thief of Time, Tony Hillerman's characters display perspectives of diverse cultural backgrounds. In Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn we see a shared heritage, as well as their contrasting points of view which stem from choosing different values to live by. Quite a few characters in Hillerman's book, who are not of Navajo blood, connect themselves with Navajo culture through digs, collection, and personal gain. This essay will briefly touch on the view points of three characters; Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn, and Richard DuMont. In these three, we are able to see a variety of cultural angles and values through their interactions with a single interface, death.

My book is The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.This book is realistic mythology. The setting takes place in modern day upstate new york.I think the theme of this book is identity and discovering identity because in the beginning, Percy Jackson didn't know who his father was or that he had any special powers.I think the author wanted us to know this is because most of us don't know are true selves but if we get out in the world and follow are dreams (like Percy did) we can discover a lot. This is important to the story because he

The character I have chosen is fictional. He is from a series of books based on the Greek Gods. This character, who made his debut in 2005 in The Lightning Thief, goes by the name Percy Jackson. We follow Percy’s journey through five books by Rick Riordan in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, and in another 5 books in the Heroes of Olympus series. Percy’s odyssey includes overcoming many obstacles like finding his mother in the Underworld and finding his way through Daedalus’ Labyrinth, and meeting gods like his father Poseidon and the Queen Hera. Many of Percy’s characteristics lead him to be a successful leader.

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is fiction, specifically fantasy, adventure, and humor. In the beginning of the story, Percy Jackson, a twelve-year-old boy, is taken to Camp Half-Blood, a safe haven for children of the Greek gods and goddesses like himself, and then, it is soon revealed that Percy is the forbidden son of the sea god, Poseidon. Later, the camp’s counselor and centaur, Chiron, explains to Percy that Zeus suspects that Poseidon had Percy steal his master bolt during the meeting of the Winter Solstice, which Poseidon argues that Hades has it to backstab them both, and in order to prevent any war between the Greek gods and goddesses, Percy is assigned a quest alongside Grover and Annabeth to retrieve Zeus’s bolt from Hades in Los Angeles and return it to Zeus as a peace offering by the Summer Solstice or by ten days. The morning after, the three travel from New York City to Denver surviving attacks by the Furies, Medusa, Echidna, and Chimera, and fortunately, with the help of Ares, the war god, they hitch a ride to Las Vegas in an animal transport service along with receiving a backpack filled with clothes and money. When there is only one day until the quest ends after Percy, Annabeth, and Grover overstayed their break in a time-delaying casino, they race into DOA Studios, the entrance to the Underworld, to confront Hades about the master bolt, which results in Hades’s outrage of being excused, claiming that Percy not only stolen Zeus’s master bolt, but

The main character of the Kite Runner is an Afghan boy named Amir and his family, including his servants, Hassan and Ali. At the start of the book, Amir and Hassan are about 12 years old and live in a new, wealthier part of Afghanistan because Amir’s father (Baba) is a big business man in Afghanistan, so he is wealthier. Amir is a Pashtun, which means he is a Sunni Muslim, while Hassan is a Hazara, which means he is a Shia Muslim. This means that the two would’ve been enemies most likely if they had not grown up together from the day they were born (not the same day, of course). Amir repeatedly says that Hassan is his brother because they were both nursed and breast fed by the same women, and that creates a special bond between two boys, even though Amir and Hassan are not biologically related in any way. Amir and Hassan grew up together the way that Baba and Ali (Amir’s father and Hassan’s father respectively) had a generation before them-they were brothers no matter the religion or history of violence between the two different groups of Muslims. Amir is literate and can read and write because he is Pashtun, while Ali and Hassan cannot because they are Hazara, so during the summer, spring, and fall months, Amir goes to school and Hassan stays home to do laundry, clean, and do other various chores. During the winter, it is kite flying season. Amir and Hassan used to build their own kites for the kite flying contests, but after they figured out that they weren’t really

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology. It’s the first novel in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The Lightning Thief is told by the main protagonist Percy Jackson, a twelve year old boy with dyslexia and ADHD living in New York City. During a class field trip to a museum to see a Greek and Roman exhibit, he stands up to Nancy Bobofit for picking on his friend Grover Underwood, and pushes her into a nearby fountain. One of the chaperone teachers, Mrs. Dodds, a math teacher, takes him away from the other students.

Many of the stories that have been told for centuries, or have recently been created, incorporate the story of a young innocent character who embarks on a journey and becomes a hero, known as The Hero’s Journey; a series of steps that all heroes follow. This journey not only shows the main character becoming a hero but also shows the hero move along a path similar to that of adolescence, the path between childhood and maturity. The Hero’s Journey was created by a man by the name of Joseph Campbell. He wrote a book called The Hero with One Thousand Faces, a novel containing a variety of stories that follow the steps of the Hero’s Journey. One famous creation that follows The Hero’s Journey is the science fiction

“When a rule is enforced, the person who is supposed to have broken it may be seen as a special kind of person, one who cannot be trusted to live by the rules agreed on by the group. He is regarded as an outsider.

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.” - Ernest Hemingway.